Summer is here, and spring quarter treated me pretty well. I was busy, but at a better pace than the last few quarters. The highlight had to be my marine invertebrates class. It kind of sucked having to drive down to Anacortes every Friday to go to class, but usually we took fun field trips. I also learned quite a bit in the class, and I felt like I was the only one starting from scratch when learning about marine ecology. I'm pretty sure I was the only one who didn't know what a polychaete was or what a tunicate looked like.
Still, being on a boat in the San Juans beat the heck out of sitting in a classroom and looking at powerpoint slides.
These seals show that I'm not the only one enjoying hanging out in the San Juans.
Here's our very own little mini sub.
It's remote controlled, and has a camera on it for maximum learning potential. I don't know what I actually learned, but it was still fun.
On our last field trip, we went out to False Bay on San Juan Island. Half of our field trips were cruising around in a boat, the other half were spent digging things out of mud. Still good times, though, even with a wicked sunburn.
In other news, my new Western Digital hard drive hasn't died yet, I'm still looking for an apartment I need to move into in 2 weeks, and I'm looking for a second summer job. I had an opportunity to work at Fred Meyer, but customer service+having to shave wasn't worth it. Maybe I'm just getting too picky.
Still, being on a boat in the San Juans beat the heck out of sitting in a classroom and looking at powerpoint slides. 
These seals show that I'm not the only one enjoying hanging out in the San Juans. 
Here's our very own little mini sub.
It's remote controlled, and has a camera on it for maximum learning potential. I don't know what I actually learned, but it was still fun.
On our last field trip, we went out to False Bay on San Juan Island. Half of our field trips were cruising around in a boat, the other half were spent digging things out of mud. Still good times, though, even with a wicked sunburn. 
In other news, my new Western Digital hard drive hasn't died yet, I'm still looking for an apartment I need to move into in 2 weeks, and I'm looking for a second summer job. I had an opportunity to work at Fred Meyer, but customer service+having to shave wasn't worth it. Maybe I'm just getting too picky.
4 comments:
Good post!!! Your feild trips look beautiful! How did your final papers turn out? Did your suburn heal? When are you coming down to visit?
All these questions and more when we rejoin "Hava the crazy-nosey biznatch" (already in progress)
Your pictures make me miss the Puget Sound... My camera and I need to hit the high spots when I get back ;)
Thanks! One of my final papers went well, the other one...not so well. Let's just say my partner was writing his portion of the paper IN CLASS during the last class. It brought my grade down a full letter, but I'm trying not to be bitter. As for when I'm coming down, probably the middle of July if not sooner.
And yes, Dane, you do need to come back and document the Sound again with your expensive electronic devices. Make it so!
So, we still on for Friday night??? :D Bellingham pubcrawl a la Price/Tursky? Hope so!
btw, my blog is back up.
Hearts!
HLT
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